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Reminds me of a guy I knew on IRC who claimed “aprishiated” was a typo. Umm, there’s a difference between a typo and not knowing how to spell something. Or, for the NSFW version: http://www.bash.org/?5300.

That’s not “a typo” (especially as he repeated it in a followup). That’s being too poorly educated to know how to spell Goebbels, pretending to be educated enough to know about Goebbels, and being too lazy to even google the spelling. (Granted, he’d have had a hard time finding it if he was going from “Gerbils”.)

It’s so far beyond “it would be funny if it weren’t so sad” that it’s back to funny again.

Ah, but who would want to ignore these people, our precious funboys! Of course, Dvorak spoilt the fun a little, by pretending that he was actually smart, which I am not too convinced about, but that’s another story.
This li’l Ou-thang here is so much beyond stupidity that I began to suspect that we have another Dvorak on our hands, but without the finesse (sic!) of him, but let us give him time to prove himself.
And if all else fails, we have Enderle.

Are there any runners ups? New candidates? Paul Thurrott doesn’t convince me. I suspect the man is intelligent, after all.

I agree this guy is a moron, but not for the “Gerbils” misnomer. That just makes him ignorant of history. If you read his article you’ll find he’s also ignorant of the present:

“I don’t really care how many times people say “oh but UAC bothers you for no reason” because it’s simply not true. Anyone who says that hasn’t used Vista and they don’t really know what they’re talking about.”

OMFG! I don’t know which is more frightening: that a ‘professional’ journalist/critic actually is so ignorant of modern history that he actually confuses a Nazi propagandist for a rodent or that, using Google, I see he is far from alone. Only Americans can be this stupid and in such numbers. I fear for this nation. I really do. I really, really do. Well, not as much as I fear Adolph Hamster and the rebirth of the Third Rake

‘Joseph Gerbils’ looks like the name of a character from an Ubisoft game for the Wii. With his three hilarious sidekicks Heinrich Chimpler, Hermann Gorilla, and Erwin Camel. Also starring: Albert Spermwhale and Rudolf Bass.

I don’t know what Ou actually looks like (I suspect he has a picture in his column but I don’t bother giving him page hits so I don’t know). But I keep thinking of him as the crazy Malibu-driving scientist in Repo Man. “Oh, you don’t want to look in the trunk…”

Ah, good old George. Apparently some folks above don’t know that he was shown the cyber-door at ZDNet a while back. Trooper that he was, even after losing the gig, he would come back and add comments here and there.

I think my favorite series he ran was the one where he wanted to prove Office’s superiority over OpenOffice.org by clocking their start up times.

Suffice it to say it would have a monumental goon-up if the people who wrote the operating system hadn’t grooved it for their office suite. I also suspect that the xml in a zip file structure which OOo had and which Office was to adopt in the next iteration may require more time to parse, especially as xml is so verbose. Maybe Office on Windows is truly the best on the best.

But, all good experiments may be duplicated and so I tried Office on my desktop system at the time which was, um, FreeBSD 5.x, no lie. OpenOffice.org was slow at about two minutes. Office 2003, though, at last look still hasn’t opened, so I’m afraid I can’t publish results.

Good times. Sweet memories, because when we’re talking about office suites, then the Microsoft advocates stand fully behind the concept that “if you get more, it’s worth paying more.” Maybe we can all get along.